Android Studio

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Abstract

This page should provide "how-to" document about using Fedora Linux for developing applications for Android platform using Android Studio.

This document will cover requirements, installation, how to build a simple application and how to use Android Emulator or real devices for testing applications.

Target Fedora version

F-20 and higher

Installation

Download Android Studio 1.0 from https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
It comes with the following:

• Android Studio IDE
• Android SDK tools
• Android 5.0 (Lollipop) Platform
• Android 5.0 emulator system image with Google APIs

After you have downloaded the android-studio-bundle.tgz file from the above source, unpack the file to an appropriate location.
Suppose it has been unpacked to some location ~/android-studio
Open a terminal window and go to android-studio/bin
Execute the file studio.sh by running the following command

sh studio.sh